The Syrian military killed at least 60 civilians, including women and children, an act anti-government activists identified as a massacre, reports the New York Times:
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad group based in Britain with a network of contacts inside Syria, said military forces had started the assault against Sanamayn on Wednesday, shelling and shooting randomly and burning or wrecking at least 20 houses. Victims included at least seven women and five people under the age of 18, the group said. [...]
Syria’s main political opposition group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, described the reported killings in Sanamayn as a massacre by a military that "slaughters civilians in retaliation for its defeats."
According to the United Nations, more than 70,000 Syrians have been killed in the civil war.
